{"id":2334,"date":"2012-04-26T01:57:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2334"},"modified":"2012-04-26T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T01:57:47","slug":"psalm-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2334\/psalm-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalm 2:7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Is there a possibility that the Father is speaking of &#8220;bringing forth&#8221; the Son into view or revealing him? Looking around <em>yalad<\/em> seems nearly always to be connected with literal birth, but there are a few abstract uses such as in Proverbs 27:1. And in the <em>Hithpael<\/em> there is the sense of &#8220;to declare one\u2019s birth (pedigree)&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">djc<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Damien:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>I think there is another figurative use of <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">yalad<\/span> in play here, in Psalm 2:7. Often, in the ancient world, when a great king installed another as subject king of a province or territory, he would re-name that lower king, as if that king were his son. Symbolically, in renaming the lower king, the greater king was &#8220;begetting&#8221; the lower king, the way a father names his son when he is born. Here, in Psalm 2:7, God the Father is speaking of installing Christ on his throne in heaven after his resurrection and ascension. So, yes, your gut feeling is right. The Father &#8220;begat&#8221; the son when he glorified him and placed him on the throne, thus revealing to be &#8220;Lord of Lords and king of kings.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a possibility that the Father is speaking of &#8220;bringing forth&#8221; the Son into view or revealing him? Looking around yalad seems nearly always to be connected with literal birth, but there are a few abstract uses such as in Proverbs 27:1. And in the Hithpael there is the sense of &#8220;to declare one\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}